Author: Hazel Gaynor
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780008393670
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Shortlisted for the Irish Book Award for Popular Fiction Book of the Year USA Today bestseller Inspired by true events 'Moving and authentic' Dinah Jefferies 'Vivid, heart-rending and so, so beautiful ' Jenny Ashcroft
Author: António Lobo Antunes
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393069532
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 607
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A soaring, symphonic epic by the Portuguese master novelist, considered to be the "heir to Conrad and Faulkner" (George Steiner). The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, António Lobo Antunes's first novel to appear in English in five years. What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, set in the steamy world of Lisbon's demimonde—a nightclub milieu of scorching intensity and kaleidoscopic beauty, a baleful planet populated by drag queens, clowns, and drug addicts—is narrated by Paolo, the son of Lisbon's most legendary transvestite, who searches for his own identity as he recalls the harrowing death of his father, Carlos; the life of Carlos's lover, Rui, a heroin addict and suicide; as well as the other denizens of this hallucinatory world. Psychologically penetrating, pregnant with literary symbolism, and deeply sympathetic in its depiction of society's dregs, Lobo Antunes's novel ventriloquizes the voices of the damned in a poetic masterwork that recalls Joyce's Ulysses with a dizzying farrago of urban images few readers will forget.
Author: Michael Berman
Publisher: Crown House Publishing
ISBN: 1845905466
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Packed with original stories and visualisations, this is a must-buy resource for teachers, trainers and therapists who are looking for new approaches to group work, or are simply story-telling enthusiasts. " An essential part of our professional development library and widely consulted" Fiona Balloch, Principal, Oxford House College, London
Author: Amy Tan
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 014312949X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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“The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” —Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguin’s iconic book design with twelve influential American literary classics representing the breadth and diversity of the Penguin Classics library. These collectible editions are dressed in the iconic orange and white tri-band cover design, first created in 1935, while french flaps, high-quality paper, and striking cover illustrations provide the cutting-edge design treatment that is the signature of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions today. The Joy Luck Club In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan’s debut novel—now widely regarded as a modern classic—examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between these four women and their American-born daughters.
Author: Minh Hoa
Publisher: bikiptiengtrung.com
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 1035
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Wen Wan stretched out her ten long and slender fingers, everyone stared at the diamond ring on her finger. Although the ring was very ordinary, Wen Wan liked it very much. Her tone was also very sweet: “This is a wedding gift from my husband (outside, I don’t usually call him husband). The ring doesn’t have any design, but this diamond ring is also called a diamond ring, which means never leaving or abandoning, the promise is eternal and unchanging, so I like it very much.” Wen Wan called him husband, not County Horse. Everyone could hear the joy and happiness in Wen Wan’s words. It was also because of Wen Wan’s words that the diamond of Da Qi was completely renamed diamond. It also made diamond rings instantly popular throughout the capital. Anyone who was about to get married would order a pair of good diamond rings, and give them to the bride on their wedding night. Of course, this was a story for later.
Author: Nancy Hastings
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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"Mission Possible" is the story of two ambitious young Americans convinced God has called them to share the good news of the gospel in South America. The couple, George and Alice, and their young son, Phillip, embark on the unknown in the early 1950s as they are given the plans for their mission work in the Presbyterian East Mission of Brazil. After a brief time serving a church in Tennessee, as a newly graduated seminary student, George is ready to fulfill his dream of serving abroad. Alice is excited to embark on this adventure in a land where she and her husband can bring a sense of hope to many, while grappling with a new life and a growing family. Their limitations and naivete are compounded with perils of the jungle, along with the endless physical, language and cultural differences encountered. Though often weary, both remain yielded to whatever means the Lord uses to train and equip them. Every part of their life goes beyond all the boundaries of their imagination as it is woven into a colorful tapestry sometimes torn, but always repaired. Their amazing adventure is fundamentally based on a real-life story.
Author: Eneas Sweetland Dallas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Author: Bombay Natural History Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 1398
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Author: Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569474664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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"Ah Lung and his beloved wife, Bo See, are separated by a cruel fate when, like thousands of other Chinese men in the nineteenth century, he is kidnapped, enslaved and shipped to the deadly guano mines off the coast of Peru. Using their wits and praying to the God of Luck, they never lose hope of someday being reunited"--Publisher description.
Author: Bock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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